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Even Face-Value Tickets Can Be Preferential
... Body: Last month, I wrote about how the Green Bay ethics board hadn't met much more than the Packers had won Super Bowls. Well, now that the Packers have won another, it's time for the ethics board to meet again (the last time it met was in 1999). One thing ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Abuse of Citizen Ignorance in an Ethics-Related Referendum
... The thinking goes that those who favor the improvement of ethics programs also favor such things as term limits, referendums ... but in practice it is sometimes disastrous. Yes, some ethics programs have been initiated or approved through referendums, although ... Size Pompano Beach ref 0812.pdf 0 bytes Robert Wechsler's blog ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments
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The Art of Making People Skittish
... movie stars, and models. Welcome a local government ethics officer to your ranks. Yes, at last a local government ethics officer's picture is on the cover of a magazine. The ethics officer is ... City Related Ethics Officers Ethics Reform In the news ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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In Nevada Legislative Immunity Case, Oral Arguments Raise Some Serious Issues
... before the Nevada Supreme Court in the Commission on Ethics v. Hardy appeal are now available in MP3 format, suitable for your media ... look as if the decision will be a good one for government ethics enforcement, certainly at the state level and, perhaps, at the local ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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A Florida Legislative Committee Calls for the Suspension of the Palm Beach County EC
... I have seen in seven years of following local government ethics matters nationwide. From about 20 minutes into the video, the ... ethics. It is hard to imagine that these same people will reform local ethics programs in ways that are in the public interest. Sen. ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Anti-Corruption Political Strategy. And an Alternative.
... principal reasons I have devoted myself to local government ethics is that the ethical habits of government officials and politicians are ... is a good way to get elected, but that once elected, ethics reform only makes enemies. They also learn that few people notice the ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Albert Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty
... Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (1970), to local government ethics ( back in 2009 , I pulled out a few thought-provoking passages from ... loyalty is the one most often encountered in government ethics. Loyalty in a government organization is one of the primary causes of ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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How to Unsettle a Settlement Agreement
Body: What happens if an ethics commission enters into a settlement agreement in which an official admits to certain conduct in violation of the jurisdiction's ethics code, and then the official goes out into the world and says he did ... yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer , Philadelphia's ethics board gets at least some officials to agree "not to make any public ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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The Defense of the Nevada Legislative Immunity Amendment Falls Short
... Nevada legislators' legislative immunity in an ethics context. Supreme Court precedents are indeed valuable. However, (i) ... Court has not yet interpreted legislative immunity in an ethics context, and (ii) it has made it clear that there are important ... what he called the core legislative functions. The state ethics commission not only lacks jurisdiction over a state legislator's voting ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 0 comments
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Why Nepotism Is Relatively Unethical
Body: Nepotism is often left out of ethics codes because it does not seem all that unethical. Another reason for ... and for waivers, even if waivers are not available for other ethics code violations. But the nepotism rule in Missouri, which applies ...
Robert Wechsler - 2018-12-19 17:18 - 2 comments
